Electra 10E Today, in 1936, American aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart took delivery of her Lockheed Electra 10E Special ...

Then residing in Massachusetts, Earhart jumped at the opportunity to be the first woman to partake in a transatlantic flight.

A new push is underway to solve one of aviation's longest-standing mysteries: the disappearance of Amelia Earhart. Researchers announced a November expedition to the Pacific island of Nikumaroro, ...

Where’s Amelia? We’re still looking, though recent events seem to offer the possibility, the possibility I emphasize, that we may find out what happened to aviatrix Amelia Earhart, who, along with ...

Purdue University, which helped fund her historic 1937 flight, said it will send a team to a remote island in the South ...

In this undated file photo, Amelia Earhart stands next to a Lockheed Electra 10E, before her last flight in 1937 from Oakland, Calif., bound for Honolulu on the first leg of her record-setting ...

To date, no one has found definitive evidence of Earhart, Noonan or the Lockheed Electra. American aviator Amelia Mary Earhart, 1928. New York Times Co./Archive Photos/Getty Images ...

Amelia Earhart stands next to her Lockheed Electra 10E, before her last flight in 1937 from Oakland, Calif., bound for Honolulu. Her disappearance remains one of aviation's biggest mysteries.

In this undated file photo, Amelia Earhart stands next to a Lockheed Electra 10E, before her last flight in 1937 from Oakland, Calif., bound for Honolulu on the first leg of her record-setting ...

In this undated file photo, Amelia Earhart stands next to a Lockheed Electra 10E, before her last flight in 1937 from Oakland, Calif., bound for Honolulu on the first leg of her record-setting ...

Amelia Earhart’s disappearance remains one of the greatest unsolved American ... Their failure to arrive at Howland in their Lockheed 10-E Electra following more than 19 hours of flight ...

In this undated file photo, Amelia Earhart stands next to a Lockheed Electra 10E, before her last flight in 1937 from Oakland, Calif., bound for Honolulu on the first leg of her record-setting ...